jQuery 1.11.0 and 2.1.0 Beta 2 Released—
New features of these versions: AMD modules used internally, published on npm, and reduced startup time, thanks to “lazy feature detects”. There are also many bug fixes, but no breaking changes. The latter makes the new versions easy upgrades from version 1.9 and later.

Dive into AngularJS, a framework that makes it easy to organize code using concepts like two-way binding, dependency injection and views which results in very testable code. See how easy it is to build simple jQuery directives with AngularJS in this free sample lesson.

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An Intro to the React Framework—
An introduction to Facebook’s MVC framework. Two interesting features: JavaScript with embedded HTML fragments is compiled to JavaScript and the DOM is managed in an intermediate format (which speeds up processing).

Web Components: Why You’re Already An Expert—
Yes, another introduction to Web Components. However, this one looks at them from a new angle: it first examines the hoops we have to jump through to get similar results without web components.

ECMAScript 6 Modules in Future Browsers—
To integrate ECMAScript 6 modules in future browsers, a <module> tag will become “the new <script> tag”. The blog post also describes how bundling will be handled.

My JS1K Demo – The Making Of—
The goal of the JS1K demo contest is to do something neat in 1 kilobyte of JavaScript code. This entry displays an animation in Canvas that is reminiscent of music visualizations.

Full-Stack Engineer at Zaption (San Francisco, CA)— Zaption is an education-technology company that makes video interactive for learning. Solve real problems with Node, Knockout, and MongoDB. We're very small, venture-funded, and have serious revenue. Talk to us.

Frontend Developer @ comScore (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)— comScore is looking for a Javascript expert who wants to solve interesting UI related problems. You’ll be working closely with us, developing and improving our flagship application, Digital Analytix. Apply today to join our international team in Amsterdam.

Web Engineer at Maker Studios (Los Angeles)—
Maker Studios has gathered over 60,000 of the most influential YouTube channels into a new network model that's disrupting the television industry. Our tech group develops the talent-facing webapps that make this possible at scale. If using technologies like Docker, NodeJS, CircleCI, Redis, Memcache, and MongoDB sounds exciting, we want you on our team.